The American Woman's HomeThe American Womans Home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth centurys most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct womens acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the postCivil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beechers influential Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s. Today, the book can be likened to an anthology of household hints, with articles on cooking, decorating, housekeeping, child-rearing, hygiene, gardening, etiquette, and home amusements. The American Womans Home, almost a bible on domestic topics for Victorian women, illuminates womens roles a century and a half ago and can be used for comparison with modern theories on the role of women in the home and in society. Illustrated with the original engravings, this completely new edition offers a lively introduction by Nicole Tonkovich and notes linking the text to important historical, social, and cultural events of the late nineteenth century |
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... exercise to nerves of sensation and of motion- Evils of excessive or insufficient exercise - Equal development of the whole . - Pages 85-90 . VIII . DOMESTIC EXERCISE . Connection of muscles and nerves - Microscopic cellular muscular ...
... exercise of body - Spine - Distortions pro- duced by tight dressing - Pressure of interior organs upon each other and upon the bones - Displacement of stomach , diaphragm , heart , intestines , and pelvic or lower organs - Women liable ...
... exercise of the intellect or feelings - Such attention to religion as prevents the per- formance of other duties wrong - Unusual precocity in children usually the result of a diseased brain - Idiocy often the result , or the precocious ...
... Exercise of mechanical skill for boys- Sewing , cutting , and fitting - General suggestions - Social and domestic duties- Family attachments - Hospitality . - Pages 214–224 . XXIV . CARE OF THE Aged . Preservation of the aged , designed ...
... Exercise - Rule for breeding - Care of Horses : feeding , grooming , special treatment - Cows : stabling , feed , calving , milking , tethering Swine : naturally cleanly , breeding , fresh water , charcoal , feeding - Sheep : winter ...
Contents
VII | 23 |
VIII | 27 |
IX | 42 |
X | 53 |
XI | 58 |
XII | 71 |
XIII | 85 |
XIV | 91 |
XXVI | 197 |
XXVII | 205 |
XXVIII | 214 |
XXIX | 225 |
XXX | 228 |
XXXI | 247 |
XXXII | 256 |
XXXIII | 260 |
XV | 95 |
XVI | 108 |
XVII | 116 |
XVIII | 122 |
XIX | 129 |
XX | 146 |
XXI | 151 |
XXII | 162 |
XXIII | 167 |
XXIV | 176 |
XXV | 185 |
XXXIV | 265 |
XXXV | 270 |
XXXVI | 278 |
XXXVII | 282 |
XXXVIII | 286 |
XXXIX | 289 |
XL | 296 |
XLI | 308 |
XLII | 318 |
XLIII | 333 |